Next month, the video hosting site owned by Google's Alphabet will prohibit videos pertaining to individual gun sales and the manufacture of firearms and ammunition.

This comes in the wake of a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead and reignited the gun control debate. On Saturday, March For Our Lives events advocating for gun control will take place across the country.

In response to YouTube's rule change, one popular channel has begun uploading its content to Pornhub, which the channel's creators are calling a "safe harbor" for their videos. Launched in 2007, the pornography video-sharing site is owned by MindGeek, based in Luxembourg.

InRange TV has nearly 145,000 subscribers on YouTube. Hosted by Karl Kasarda and Ian McCollum, the channel's videos ranges from the simple (dumping mud on a gun and seeing if it will still work) to the esoteric (exploring the intersection of the hacking and firearms cultures).

"InRangeTV takes pride in its consistently forward looking approach to digital media in today’s world of partisan censorship, fake news, and corporate encroachment into publication of potentially controversial information," the channel said on Facebook. "If you think firearms should be legal or not is not relevant to the point."

The Arizona-based partners have long criticized YouTube's crackdown on gun channels. When YouTube began removing ads from some gun-related videos, a potential source of income for videomakers, the pair preemptively removed ads from their channel and emphasized generating revenue directly from their audience.

The channel has more than 4,700 people directly contributing to it through the Patreon web service.

In a post to channel supporters on Patreon Thursday, Kasarda said, "YouTube’s policies and InRangeTV’s move is not about changing your mind on the topic of firearms ownership - it’s about the freedom of expression on the internet."

"Why is YouTube using its position as the world’s largest and most empowering content provider and place of free expression as a tool to control the narrative so inconsistently?" he asked.

In the post, Kasarda said firearm ownership is legal, and yet, a search of YouTube yielded instructional videos about how to make methamphetamine, how to make blasting caps and how to shoplift.

"Humanity has used the internet to evolve to new heights of intellectual pursuits, knowledge and philosophy," he wrote. "Do we really want to lose this?"

As of Friday, InRange TV had uploaded five videos to Pornhub and those videos had been viewed about 21,600 times. Three of those videos had also been uploaded to YouTube and garnered about 58,000 views.

C&Rsenal, another YouTube gun channel focused on historic firearms with nearly 98,000 subscribers, has also started posting content to Pornhub.

McCollum and Kasarda have said they are not attempting to generate revenue from Pornhub.

The channel has been posting about the situation on its Facebook page. A Wednesday post was simply a quote from Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine: "You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it."